Psychology Of The Strange

Season 3 of Psychology of the Strange explores those in-between spaces through folklore, fear, and dark psychology. 🕯️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psy… #folklore #mythology #fear #psychology #spookypodcast

@wired4wonder Suffocated by a zombie while camping alone

I was Wacked by Michael Myers in a haunted house. How about you?

The natives of Renwick, Cumbria were once known as "bats" because of the monstrous bat-like being inhabiting their ruined church and read more in my "Folklore of the Lake District" folklorepress.co.uk art: Johan Egerkrans

This account has occult power Stele for protection against evil people by Austin Osman Spare, c.1955.

This looks interesting as I casually stroll into a cult gathering…🙃

Did you know that they are using voodoo dolls in scientific research? New Substack article available now @psychstrangepod/note/p-197507081?r=4ajm1n&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@psychstrangep…

Yeah whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night 🙃

she just twerked through the hallway and knocked over my diffuser. ghost sightings in 100 years are going to be a completely different situation. new episode out now.

West Virginia has some of the strangest folklore. Take the Snarlyyow for example. It is a ghost dog from the 1700s that is literally intangible. Bullets go right through it. It doesn’t even bark or bite. It just stands in your way until you decide to go home.#Appalachia #Monsters

Why does the woman in white show up across cultures and across time and what did a pope have to do with how we imagine ghosts….podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psy…

New episode dropped today. The Fashion Sense of Ghosts gets into the Woman in White lore, the cognitive psychology of why your brain reaches for Victorian silhouettes when it needs to resolve something frightening in the dark #ghost #paranormal #supernatural

In Scots Gaelic lore, 'cu sìth' is the faerie dog; the size of a Highland Cow with a shaggy green coat. It will let out three barks as an ill omen: walking in Torridon my only companion distant barking dog from my "Folklore of Scotland" folkloreofscotland.com

You are never too old to play with dolls

I just published a new post on my @buymeacoffee Behind the Strange buymeacoffee.com/psychstrangepo…

Episode is live now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psy…

We’re covering the real history of the voodoo doll, Marie Laveau, and the psychology of why magical thinking works whether you believe in magic or not. #magic #voodoodoll #marielaveau #magicalthinking #folklore

The victorian era CONEY ISLAND MONSTER • In September of 1880... reports of an "aerial mystery" were spreading! Said to be a man with bat wings, improved frog legs & a cruel & determined look on his face! Reported to be flying in a swimming like motion headed towards New Jersey!

- Ancient Norse Werewolves - Werewolves also emerged during the Ancient Nordic age (c.1700 BC – c. 500 BC) in folklore and mythology. During the viking age, Norse people colonized Iceland and at the time their Aesir religion left elements of Norse mythology in Icelandic literature. Due to this, despite their distance, they share a common mythology. Norse mythology is composed of sagas and when it comes to werewolfism, the Volsunga Saga from the thirteenth century stands apart because werewolf related stories have a prominent presence. The most famous such story  tells of a father and son who were wondering in the woods when they came upon a hut. In it they find two spellbound wolf pelts. These pelts had the power to turn people into powerful and cunning wolves, but couldn’t be removed for a period of ten days. The story states that the father and son donned the pelts, and after transforming into wolves journeyed together rampaging the forest for a time before splitting up. When they separated, the pair agreed to howl to each other if one of them encountered seven men to fight at a time, but the son breaches the agreement and kills 11 men at once. Angered by this, the father fatally injures the son. Then, a Raven who is a messenger of Odin, brings an enchanted healing leaf to place on the son’s wound. On the tenth day, after he is healed, he and his father take off the enchanted wolf pelts and burn them to ashes.